Odd question....
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cindy.wellman
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Odd question....
I'm not sure if this has been discussed on this Bored, but I just saw a picture of President Obama with a cigarette. I was aware he smoked and that he was possibly quitting. Is he trying to quit smoking? I would hate to attempt to quit smoking and also be the President. If he succeeds, I'm impressed!
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Re: Odd question....
Just one of his many promises.cindy.wellman wrote:I Is he trying to quit smoking?
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SportsFan68
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It's come up, somebody remarked on his Nicorette chaw the other day. Here's all I know --cindy.wellman wrote:I'm not sure if this has been discussed on this Bored, but I just saw a picture of President Obama with a cigarette. I was aware he smoked and that he was possibly quitting. Is he trying to quit smoking? I would hate to attempt to quit smoking and also be the President. If he succeeds, I'm impressed!
Supposedly, Michelle told him he had to quit smoking, or he couldn't run for President. So he quit.
But he's been chewing Nicorette. And sneaking cigarettes too. Except if there's a pic, I guess he's not sneaking them.
I hate it that he smokes. I hope there aren't any more pics, because I hate it anytime smoking or chew is made to seem normal, until somebody's fighting for her or his life. And now we have a relatively young President, very healthy appearing, smoking -- how "normal" does that look? Ugh!
What I really hope is that he quits. Soon. I'm with you -- if he does succeed, I'll be very impressed.
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Re: Odd question....
The West Wing was cancelled?Thousandaire wrote:President Bartlet smoked, and look what he accomplished.
I believe in the usefulness of useless information.
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Re: Odd question....
The news people say that he smokes OPCs only.
other people's cigarettes
other people's cigarettes
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That's funny! You down with OPC?peacock2121 wrote:The news people say that he smokes OPCs only.
other people's cigarettes
My dad always used to say they didn't quit smoking, they just quit buying.
Push it real good!
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Re: Odd question....
"Hey, can I bum a cigarette? I left mine in the machine."
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Typical liberal. (C'mon, someone had to say it).peacock2121 wrote:The news people say that he smokes OPCs only.
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Re: Odd question....
Usually when that happens, the folkses who are "borrowed" from quit before the folkses who do the borrowing. I think it's because their addiction is less -- they don't care that they'll never see those cigarettes again. That's my anecdotal conclusion, I hasten to add, never having borrowed or been borrowed from.Sisyphean Fan wrote:That's funny! You down with OPC?peacock2121 wrote:The news people say that he smokes OPCs only.
other people's cigarettes
My dad always used to say they didn't quit smoking, they just quit buying.
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Re: Odd question....
Yeah, I Google imaged Obama cigarette, and the pic Thousandaire found seems to be the only authentic one in about 15 pages. All of them where I could find a date, the dates were different, so no telling.Thousandaire wrote:[img]
Somehow I'm suspecting that my fears are groundless, that there will never be a current photo of President Obama smoking, ever again. I hope I'm right about that.
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Of course not, since the media coddles him!!!SportsFan68 wrote:Yeah, I Google imaged Obama cigarette, and the pic Thousandaire found seems to be the only authentic one in about 15 pages. All of them where I could find a date, the dates were different, so no telling.Thousandaire wrote:[img]
Somehow I'm suspecting that my fears are groundless, that there will never be a current photo of President Obama smoking, ever again. I hope I'm right about that.
Had to say it!!!
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Re: Odd question....
Oh, fer cryin' out loud. Laura Bush smokes, too, or at least she did when she became First Lady. She may have since quit.
That pic of Obama looks pretty old, at least he looks pretty young and his hair's a helluva lot less gray!
I quit in April 1989, after pretty much smoking every day since I was 12, and before that whenever I could scrounge one. I did NOT quit smoking to harass smokers. I quit because I got too damn sick to smoke. When I quit, Keith stopped smoking in the house. I can honestly say that -- if he'd been the one to quit first, I could never have been that considerate.
Both of my nurses smoke, along with my chief tech, a couple of the other techs, and one of the physicists, and this after looking at lung tumors all day long. One of our doctors, who's no longer with my dept., used to go out to his car and puff his pipe at lunchtime. I found this recently and printed it out for them to decorate the smoking shelter:
As for "but think of the children!", I've always wondered why children of smokers grow up to smoke. Seriously, I started smoking because my boring old parents didn't -- in fact, my Mom hates smoking precisely because her Dad smoked. So, IMO, she did the correct and expected thing and rebelled against it. I once asked Megan, some time after I'd quit, and all she could tell me was, "Well, Mom -- even smokers don't want their kids to smoke!" I guess that makes as much sense as anything else.
I have 3 kids. The oldest smokes, the middle one absolutely hates smoking, and the youngest used to sneak a puff back in her early teens, but quit when she got a little older.
I will close by saying that if I could smoke one or two a day -- instead of one or two packs -- I would probably smoke. Or, there are times I wish I could, but I remain grateful that I no longer have to.
That pic of Obama looks pretty old, at least he looks pretty young and his hair's a helluva lot less gray!
I quit in April 1989, after pretty much smoking every day since I was 12, and before that whenever I could scrounge one. I did NOT quit smoking to harass smokers. I quit because I got too damn sick to smoke. When I quit, Keith stopped smoking in the house. I can honestly say that -- if he'd been the one to quit first, I could never have been that considerate.
Both of my nurses smoke, along with my chief tech, a couple of the other techs, and one of the physicists, and this after looking at lung tumors all day long. One of our doctors, who's no longer with my dept., used to go out to his car and puff his pipe at lunchtime. I found this recently and printed it out for them to decorate the smoking shelter:
As for "but think of the children!", I've always wondered why children of smokers grow up to smoke. Seriously, I started smoking because my boring old parents didn't -- in fact, my Mom hates smoking precisely because her Dad smoked. So, IMO, she did the correct and expected thing and rebelled against it. I once asked Megan, some time after I'd quit, and all she could tell me was, "Well, Mom -- even smokers don't want their kids to smoke!" I guess that makes as much sense as anything else.
I have 3 kids. The oldest smokes, the middle one absolutely hates smoking, and the youngest used to sneak a puff back in her early teens, but quit when she got a little older.
I will close by saying that if I could smoke one or two a day -- instead of one or two packs -- I would probably smoke. Or, there are times I wish I could, but I remain grateful that I no longer have to.